I asked Cornell for advice on learning Japanese on my own since I have a learning disability that makes learning it at Cornell impractical. I was advised to get Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part I, and then get the associated materials from the Cornell's Language Resource Center. I decided this was a good idea: if I seek any help with Japanese locally (e.g., a tutor or a conversation partner), they'll probably use JSL, so I might as well use that as my textbook.

I went to the LRC's site and discovered that while I can get one of the items for JSL, Part I, the two others are sold to Cornell students only. Never mind that the textbook itself says they are necessary in the introduction.

So I'm hoping that out there somewhere are students (from Cornell and elsewhere) who have moved on from first-year Japanese and therefore don't use those CDs anymore and would be willing to sell them to me. I'll pay the current price charged by the LRC ($15 each) as well as shipping, of course. (If you are a Cornell student still in Ithaca, maybe we could arrange a pick-up, and maybe we could even talk about getting together for conversation practice or something. ^_^)

Hey, I know this is a few months old, but could you tell me what's on those CDs? I've never seen audio CDs for JSL. I do have both of the computer programs that go with it, but they are normally like $70, not $15, so I'm curious.

Franzeska wrote:Hey, I know this is a few months old, but could you tell me what's on those CDs? I've never seen audio CDs for JSL. I do have both of the computer programs that go with it, but they are normally like $70, not $15, so I'm curious.

I've never heard of those CDs; the only one I know about is the computer program CD for volume 1, and the DVD for volumes 2 and 3.